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to: PAUL WANKADIA
from: JAMES VAHN
date: 1997-07-05 20:16:00
subject: Re: FW: protected mode

> Here's my latest revision of the code :
> /*
>         boot/setup.S
>         ~~~~~~~~~~~~
$ gcc -E setup.S -o setup.s
$ as setup.s -o setup
$ strip setup
$ ls -l setup
  -rw-r--r--   1 jvahn    jvahn         488 Jul  5 19:41 setup
Much larger than I expected.  Anyway,  cat setup > /dev/fd0
An interesting effect when I booted the floppy-- it dumped me into the 
CMOS setup menu.  Other than that, am I using the proper procedures to
assemble your code?  There is a lot of garbage at the beginning when I
looked at setup under a hex editor, the real code didn't start until 34h
bytes into the file.
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